Though the blog hasn’t exactly been going gangbusters this past year (you can thank these little guys), it is still limping along. In fact this post you’re reading right now is #3000 [Ed.: Holy shit!].

Thank you for reading over the years, and please do stick around – I still have some blogging left in me!

Pity the lowly public toilet, a redolent reminder of the failure of the best minds in urban planning to address the most fundamental of daily necessities.

Millions have been invested in the facilities for collective relief. Often, they have become targets for graffiti, trash-can fires, furtive needle activity, commercial lovemaking, emergency baths, laundries for the homeless, and repositories of castoff diapers.

Go to any city in America and ask whether it has fixed the public toilet problem, and most any city in America will hold its nose.

2,746 posts later I’m still not bored with it, so as long as you’re all still paying attention, I think I’ll keep going.

Though I expect beer, the Timbers, and Fairs and Festivals will continue to dominate the coverage here, soon you may see a bit more of an emphasis on family-friendly activities – as many of you know my wife Heather and I are expecting twin boys. When they arrive [soon!], please forgive the inevitably less rigorous posting schedule – I’ve been told babies take up a lot of time . . . But don’t worry, I have no intentions to abandon the blog (nor turn it into a baby blog).

Dave Knows Portland was launched four years ago today – that was one thousand, nine hundred, and thirteen posts ago!

That first post was about beer, which was a harbinger of things to come – the most popular blog post categories over the years (and I’m still not bored of them) are beer, the Timbers, and festival. But I’ve written about everything from eating contests to Canada too. A few categories have actually spawned their own websites – as long time readers know, I’m obsessed with quite fond of poutine, which I now blog about at Portland Poutine. More recently I launched Portland Soccer Bars and TriMet Diaries.

But ultimately, Dave Knows Portland is my home. Heck, I don’t actually live in Portland right now, but I’m still (healthily?) obsessed with what’s going in Portland – both to benefit you, my dear reader, and myself – for I’m still spending a lot of time in Portland (almost every other weekend it seems).

But ultimately on the occasion of the fourth birthday of this blog, I would like to thank you – for making it worth writing.

Thanks for reading, commenting, linking, and lurking – there’d be no point without you!